Esther Shemitz (June 25, 1900 – August 16, 1986), also known as "Esther Chambers" and "Mrs. Whittaker Chambers," was a pacifist American painter and illustrator who, as wife of ex-Soviet spy Whittaker Chambers, provided testimony that "helped substantiate" her husband's allegations during the Hiss Case.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
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"Widow of Chambers Dies". The New York Times. 20 August 1986. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
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"Esther Shemitz Chambers; Widow of Man Who Played Key Role in Alger Hiss Case". Los Angeles Times. 23 August 1986. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
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"Chambers Is Dead; Hiss Case Witness". The New York Times. 12 July 1961. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
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"Historical Notes: Death of a Witness". Time. 21 July 1961. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
^"Clara Database of Women Artists: Esther Shemitz Chambers". National Museum of Women in the Arts. 23 August 1986. Archived from the original on 19 November 2018. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
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Chambers, Whittaker (1952). Witness. New York: Random House. pp. 48–50 (death threat), 232 (Passaic), 265 (courtship). ISBN 9780895269157. LCCN 52005149. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
EstherShemitz (June 25, 1900 – August 16, 1986), also known as "Esther Chambers" and "Mrs. Whittaker Chambers," was a pacifist American painter and illustrator...
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went into the Soviet underground a few years earlier; Chambers's wife, EstherShemitz Chambers, knew Oggins's wife, Nerma Berman Oggins, from the Rand School...
with Alexander Calder, Whittaker Chambers (husband of ASL classmate EstherShemitz), Langston Hughes, Meyer Schapiro, and many other figures in the New...
parents were Barnett Levine and Sophia Shemitz (sister of Reuben Shemitz and aunt of Sylvan Shemitz). EstherShemitz later married Whittaker Chambers. Levine...
included attorney Reuben Shemitz and artist EstherShemitz; his cousins included attorney Nathan Levine. Shemitz served in the U.S. Navy during World War...
Chambers, and later wrote more about his dislike of Chambers, whose wife EstherShemitz his first wife Selma and he had known through the Rand School of Social...
($6) per month—or free. Students in the 1920s included Noguchi and EstherShemitz. To foster Noguchi's decision to study sculpture, Ruotolo offered him...
homosexuality. Chambers later monogamously married the pacifist painter EstherShemitz, working as a journalist and editor. Since the mid-1970s, most communist...
Price, 74, British racehorse trainer. Jaime Sáenz, 64, Bolivian writer. EstherShemitz, 86, American painter. Richard Sneider, 64, American diplomat. D Subbaramaiah...
John Reed Club, and artist concerned with African-American rights was EstherShemitz, by 1931 wife of Whittaker Chambers.) In New York, Noda became acquainted...
illustrations by artists such as William Siegel, Hugo Gellert, and EstherShemitz (future wife of Whittaker Chambers)." The firm also published hardback...
Mary Anne Bransby, Gerhard Bakker, and EstherShemitz (who married Whittaker Chambers): both Burck and Shemitz contributed illustrations to The New Masses...
10, 1949, FBI investigators questioned EstherShemitz, wife of Whittaker Chambers, about the Ogginses, as Esther Chambers and Nerma Oggins had both attended...
"Prossy" (important because during proceedings Whittaker Chambers and EstherShemitz remembered "Hilly" and "Dilly"). In 1932, she registered as a Socialist...
selling magazines in New York. There she met EstherShemitz, with whom she became lifelong friends. (Shemitz married Whittaker Chambers.) In 1926 she walked...
Page with Christina Looper Baker (1996) Stefan Kanfer Grace Lumpkin EstherShemitz Whittaker Chambers Wanda Gag Marguerite Young (journalist) Proletkult...
Criss, Burgoyne Diller, I. Rice Pereira, David Smith, Jacob Burck, and EstherShemitz. The lattermost would later state that Matulka was the greatest influence...
Theodore Scheel Isidor Schneider Evelyn Scott Edwin Seaver Edith Segal EstherShemitz William Siegel Upton Sinclair John Sloan (John French Sloan) Otto Soglow...
Julia M. Allen cited Ferry about Chambers' wife, "Recollections of EstherShemitz reflect the gender rigidity of the time and help to explain why both...
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